Great race video

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2wmXP3PiWE

The 1990 Met Mile....Easy Goer's second to last race.

The field included four champions...

* Easy Goer (1988 Champion 2-year-old. Hall of Famer)

* Criminal Type (1990 Horse of the year)

* Black Tie Affair (1991 Horse of the year)

* Housebuster (1990 champion sprinter)

Also in the race was multiple Grade 1 winner Sewickley.....in the last 65 years, only two horses have won multiple runnings of the Gr 1 Vosburgh, they are Dr. Fager and Sewickley.

Black Tie Affair was getting 10lbs from Easy Goer and was sent off at 132/1 odds!

Easy Goer looked flat in that race from a visual standpoint - however, he actually ran a zero on the Ragozin sheet. (a gigantic figure!) Though, carrying 127 pounds and racing wide on the turn obviously had a lot to do with that.

2nd place finisher was the 3yo Housebuster, he got 14lbs from Easy Goer in this race.

He entered the '90 Met Mile on an 8 race win streak, with 7 consecutive stake wins by a combined 32 lengths. After his 2nd place finish in this race, he racked up three more Graded Stakes wins in a row, including a 13 length win in the Grade 1 Jerome Handicap, under 126lbs, handing 2nd place finisher Citidancer (who carried 12lbs less) the only loss of his brief but promising career.

While this was truly a spectacular race, what the heck were you doing thinking about Easy Goer at 3 am in the morning?

One of my favorite quotes from the Blood-Horse in regards to the battles of Affirmed and Alydar was: "There was a winner and a loser, but the brilliance of each made a hero of the other". I think that applies to Sunday Silence and Easy Goer as well.